Delaware River plume response to a strong upwelling-favorable wind event

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Apr 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3107302h&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 7, CiteID L07302

Physics

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Oceanography: General: Continental Shelf Processes, Oceanography: General: Upwelling And Convergences, Oceanography: Physical: Turbulence, Diffusion, And Mixing Processes, Oceanography: Physical: Fronts And Jets

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The mixing and secondary circulation in the Delaware River plume during a strong (10 m/s) upwelling-favorable wind event in April 2003 have been observed using a dye tracer. The dye, injected into the halocline at the base of the plume, was surveyed for more than a day as it moved 28 km off shore. The secondary circulation within the plume was resolved as the dye patch dispersed. This flow pattern conformed with numerical model results of Fong and Geyer [2001] involving an upwelling flow 8.4 × 10-5 m/s (~7.3 m/day) and a subsequent near surface, offshore flow (~0.09 m/s) across the plume. The salting rate of the plume implied a mean vertical diffusivity of ~2 × 10-4 m2/s where the gradient Richardson number was approximately 0.6.

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